Our Emperor was our Toastmaster today and our theme was “Charisma: Letting The Inner Light Shine.”

When Amber opened with an invocation defining charisma as a state of caring about others, Albert realized he had unwittingly picked a theme that focused on others, rather that on his majestic self!  How did this happen!

(By the way last week’s recap was wrong.  Amber won the Best Table Topics ribbon last week.  Sorry.  Go Amber!)

Stuart was our Topic Master.  Unfortunately no one seemed to want to master his charismatic topics.  Wendy went rogue and talked about her peeing dog,  Robin told jokes he’d heard recently (which were stellar) and Amy spoke not on whether charisma is innate or learned, but rather on how it can be un-learned.  Robert tap danced around an answer, and finally new member Brenda eloquently addressed one of Stuart’s actual topics, and walked away with the ribbon.

If you missed the meeting, this is honestly honestly true, ask anyone who was there – Cynthia did a full-on speech about vomit.  In answer to the searching question, “What’s Up Chuck?” she spoke of vomiting after drinking, vomiting from amusement park rides, and virtual vomiting after no more vomit was left to be vomited.  And what did she do for a finale?  Displayed an actual bag of vomit.  Cynthia.  You have guts!  And we saw them!   Evaluator Heather, undaunted in her first evaluation – delivered a clever, insightful and brilliantly constructive evaluation, cleaning up quite nicely after Cynthia.  Both ladies cleaned up: Cynthia with the Best Speaker ribbon and Heather with two ribbons - Best Evaluator and Most Enthusiastic.

Louis did a speech about Tiny House.  Not the Tiny House or a Tiny House.  Just Tiny House.  He’s building one. He outlined good reasons for doing so, yet never explored Tiny House as a resource for teenager  management. As Evaluator Carol pointed out, the Tiny House speech could have been bigger. More volume, more visuals.

Congratulations to our ribbon winners!

  • Best Table Topic: Brenda
  • Best Speaker: Cynthia
  • Best Evaluator: Heather
  • Most Enthusiastic: Heather
  • Best Use of Humor: Carol

An All Girl Ribbon Sweep!!

See you next week!